from the leading two economists, saez from the university of california in berkeley, and piketty in france confirms that even over the last five years of the crisis, through 2012, the inequality of wealth and income has gotten worse, as though we are determined not to deal with it. all of those headlines you talked about are more of that. i mean, the astonishing capacity to make it harder for people to have a delivery of their mail on saturday, to save what is in a larger picture a trivial amount of money, but that will really impact -- thousands of people will lose their jobs. everyone will lose a service that is important, particularly in smaller places around the united states that are not served by anything comparable to the post office. and then as you pointed out, and i have to say a word about it, this amazing display in which we raise the top income tax on the richest people from 35% to 39.6% only for those over $450,000 a year, while for the 150 million americans who get a weekly or a monthly check, their payroll tax went up a whopping 48% from 4.2 to -- this is so grotesque an in